When it comes to China stories, people will believe almost anything. Take, for instance, the reports about pollution being so severe in Beijing that residents now watch radiant sunrises broadcast on a huge screen in Tiananmen Square. So, that never happened. As Tech in Asia flags, the sunrise is a clip from a tourism ad for...

This week, over 200 million people have begun traveling home to celebrate the spring festival, chunjie, or Chinese New Year, part of the world's biggest annual mass migration which invariably strains the country's transportation system with days-long traffic jams, flight delays, and near-riots over sold-out train tickets. This year should be especially bad. Transportation officials estimate that China's 1.3 billion...